Conference on History and Memory about the Jasenovac Concentration Camp

2019-09-06

Recent years have seen an increase in public debates and controversies concerning the Jasenovac camp complex, built in August 1941 after the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia (Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH) following the invasion of Yugoslavia by Axis forces in April the same year.

Jasenovac Memorial Site, on the banks of the Sava
River, marking the border between Croatia and Bos-
nia and Herzegovina. It consists of Bogdan Bog-
danović's monument "The Stone Flower" created
in 1966, small earth mounds marking the original
placement of barracks and a museum.

The conference Jasenovac Past and Present: History and Memory of Institutionalised Destruction will gather a team of international experts to examine the history and memory of Jasenovac by critically analysing an intricate web of connections transcending past and present. It is scheduled for 24–26 March 2020 and will take place during three consequtive days in Belgrade, Jasenovac and Zagreb. ​